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She swiped her co-worker’s Coke can. Police say it cracked a 28-year-old murder case.
washingtonpost.com

The Earth’s Shell Has Cracked, and We’re Drifting on the Pieces
nytimes.com

‘A torrent of ghastly revelations’: what military service taught me about America
theguardian.com

Pterosaurs: Fur flies over feathery fossils
bbc.com

Saturn With No Rings? It Could Happen, and Sooner Than Astronomers Expected
nytimes.com

The elusive ‘hidden people’ of Iceland
bbc.com

Discovered: The Most-Distant Solar System Object Ever Observed
carnegiescience.edu

Bath Salts to Bitcoin: John McAfee’s Bizarre Crypto Hustle
nymag.com

Medical Detectives: The Last Hope For Families Coping With Rare Diseases
npr.org

Two of a Kind: China’s First Pet Cloning Service Duplicates Star Pooch
news18.com

The inside story: How police and the FBI found one of the country’s worst serial killers
latimes.com

Long-Hidden ‘Pyramid’ Found in Indonesia Was Likely an Ancient Temple
livescience.com

These bats carry a virus as deadly as Ebola, and scientists are tracking them to try to stop its spread
washingtonpost.com

Scant Evidence Behind the Advice About Salt
nytimes.com

Donald Knuth, master of algorithms, reflects on 50 years of his opus-in-progress, “The Art of Computer Programming.”
nytimes.com

Pulling Canada’s Caribou Back From the Brink
theatlantic.com

The Mad Scramble to Claim the World’s Most Coveted Meteorite
wired.com

Why we’ve always loved unicorns
bbc.com

The DDR Type 2 was a valve-based short-wave clandestine radio transmitter used in East Germany during the Cold War
cryptomuseum.com • (see also)

A nuclear-powered ‘tunnelbot’ to search for life on Jupiter’s icy moon Europa
phys.org

In praise of parasites
knowablemagazine.org

Behind the Scenes of Virgin Galactic’s First Space Mission
newyorker.com

Could Life on Mars Be Lurking Deep Underground?
livescience.com

Gene-edited pigs immune to swine fever
cosmosmagazine.com

A Bright Green ‘Christmas Comet’ Will Fly the Closest to Earth in Centuries
nytimes.com

Missing ocean monitoring instrument found after five years at sea
noc.ac.uk

More than the Time
nationalreview.com

Girl, 2, survives ‘drastic’ surgery to reconstruct her skull
cbc.ca

NASA Doesn’t Have Enough Nuclear Fuel For Its Deep Space Missions
forbes.com

Time travel is possible – but only if you have an object with infinite mass
theconversation.com

50 years have passed since NASA’s Apollo 8 mission circled the moon for the first time — here is every Apollo mission explained
businessinsider.com

How the CIA Trains Spies to Hide in Plain Sight
wired.com

Parrot Uses Alexa to Order Watermelon, Lightbulbs While Owner Is Out
newsweek.com

Video: Dive over Jupiter’s cloud-tops with Nasa’s Juno craft [0:35]
youtube.com

What it’s like to work in the biggest building in the world
bbc.com

Ancient bird fossils have ‘the weirdest feathers I have ever seen’
sciencemag.org

Einstein’s most effective life hack wasn’t about productivity
qz.com

The Bite of the Sabertooth
blogs.scientificamerican.com

A New Year message from the edge of the solar system
theguardian.com

Video: Tiny ‘Zombies’ Rising from the Tundra [9:06]
theatlantic.com

Well-preserved’ Royal priest tomb uncovered in Saqqara
egypttoday.com • Another article

GE Powered the American Century—Then It Burned Out
wsj.com

What Chewed-Up Gum Reveals About Life in the Stone Age
theatlantic.com

Meet IceWorm: NASA’s New Ice-Climbing Robot
eos.org

Viking cat skeletons reveal a surprising growth in the size of felines over time
sciencemag.org

A young star caught forming like a planet
phys.org

The Final Adventure of a Pioneer Scientist
undark.org

Scientists Are Fighting For The Stricken Pickle Against This Tricky Disease
npr.org

The technology that could end traffic jams
bbc.com

Lost in the Valley of Death
outsideonline.com

Special Report: J&J knew for decades that asbestos lurked in its Baby Powder
reuters.com

Sorry, your data can still be identified even if it’s anonymized
fastcompany.com

‘Smoking Gun’ Planet: This Neptune-Size Alien World Is Evaporating in Record Time
space.com

First Dutch bananas could help tackle worldwide fungal threat
theguardian.com • (see also)

The animal that lives forever (autoplay video)
bbcearth.com

Minnette de Silva: the brilliant female architect forgotten by history
theguardian.com

Image: On this day in 1972 humans last set foot on the moon
damninteresting.com

What Lies Beneath the Transylvanian Castle That Imprisoned ‘Dracula’?
livescience.com

When will electric airliners make sense?
arstechnica.com

One of Nature’s Smallest Flowering Plants Can Survive Inside of a Duck
nytimes.com